Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Corporal F. H. Higgins, Dorsetshire Regiment, killed in action, 1 October 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (10084 L. Cpl., 5/Dorset. R.); 1914-15 Star (10084 Pte., Dorset. R.); British War and Victory Medals (10084 Cpl., Dorset. R.); Memorial Plaque (Frederick Henry Higgins) first with slight edge bruising, nearly very fine; others good very fine (5) £600-700

M.M. London Gazette 6 January 1917.

Frederick Henry Higgins was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, and living in Puddletown, Dorset, enlisted at Dorchester. Serving with the 5th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment, he entered the Balkan theatre of war on 11 July 1915. With the same unit he was subsequently awarded the M.M. for bravery in the field, being presented with the medal at Pernois, Somme, on 15 November 1916. He was killed in action on 1 October 1918 as the 5th Battalion advanced near Epinoy. Corporal Higgins was buried in the Chapel Corner Cemetery, Sauchy-Lestree, Pas de Calais, France. Sold with original card envelope and slip for the Memorial Plaque and a folder containing copied m.i.c., diary and gazette extracts, photographs of his grave stone and the cemetery and other research.